He cried out in agony as she sobbed, reciting the lines exactly as he forced her to confess them. “He dragged her across the hard, wooden floor to the front door. Shoving her hard, she fell onto the small porch as Seth slammed the door behind her, casting her and the bastard child in her womb away from his home. After listening to her cry and pound on the door, too feverish and frail to walk through town to get to her love, Seth opened the door, picked her up and carried her back to bed. “Drifting in and out of consciousness, Lorien was able to rest and regain her strength so that her body could start to deal with what was growing inside her belly, sucking on every last resource to survive. Seth, having spent several days feeding her and brooding on what he would do to Lokee, set out to find the culprit, with only one notion concluded in his mind: to kill him. “I had heard of the pregnancy and warned Lokee of the impending visit so he was not caught off-guard. Of course, he wouldn’t listen.
